#Homesh Yeshiva

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Supreme Court rejects request to dismantle Homesh Yeshiva

The petitioners were ordered to pay 15,000 shekels (approximately $4,000) in court costs. (August 3, 2023 / JNS) Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, on Wednesday struck down a petition demanding that the state dismantle the Homesh Yeshiva, or religious school, in Samaria. The decision, handed down by Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and justices Uzi Vogelman and…

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Despite opposition from the US, the far-right government of Netanyahu seeks to reestablish and legalise an Israeli outpost evacuated in 2005 by moving a yeshiva onto public land

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Where Do You Think We Live?

I’ve been writing regularly for fifteen years, and to my very great sorrow, there is one story that I find myself writing over and over. Here is the 19 December 2021 version:

On Thursday night, three yeshiva students were riding in a car near Homesh, which is in Samaria northwest of Shechem (the site of the biblical story of the rape of Dina and the “disproportionate” reaction of her brothers Shimon and Levi). Arab terrorists fired on the car from ambush with automatic weapons, killing Yehuda Dimentman, 25 years old, married and the father of an 9-month old child, and wounding two others.

Last night, the terrorists that carried out the attack and those that helped them were arrested in a joint operation of the IDF, the Border Police, and the Shabak (general security agency). What this usually means is that they were taken into custody by a special unit of the Border Police known as the Yamam, on intelligence provided by the Shabak, with security support from the IDF.

The process of identifying, locating, and capturing terrorists has been developed to an extent probably unmatched anywhere else in the world. The technological and operational abilities of Israel’s security forces are extraordinary. But after this point, Israel’s ability to deal with terrorism falls apart.

When Yamam operators call out a terror suspect, there are several possible outcomes. Sometimes they surrender (one officer told me that “sometimes the tough terrorists cry for their mothers”), and sometimes they open fire. Almost invariably, the latter scenario ends with the terrorists dead and the officers unhurt. The officers are extremely professional and don’t shoot when it isn’t necessary. Lately it seems that the terrorists have come to understand that, and give up peacefully.

And then? Yehuda Dimentman is dead, his wife is a young widow and his child does not have a father. His murderers will be tried, convicted and sent to prison, probably with life sentences. This usually will be reduced to 20-25 years, with eligibility for parole after two-thirds of the sentence has been served (multiple murderers usually get multiple consecutive life sentences). This, of course, assumes that there is no “prisoner exchange” – which would better be called a ransoming of hostages – beforehand.

There have been several such exchanges, with the best known being the 2011 trade of 1027 Arab prisoners for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit. One of the released prisoners was Ahlam al-Tamimi, who masterminded the 2001 Sbarro Pizza bombing in which 17 Israelis died and numerous others were injured. Tamimi was sentenced to 16 life sentences (one of her victims died only recently). Although she is wanted for murder by the US (several of her victims were American citizens), Jordan refuses to honor its extradition treaty, and she remains free as a Jordanian media celebrity. Most security prisoners believe that they, too, will not need to finish their sentences.

While they are in prison, Arab security prisoners enjoy conditions far better than most Jewish criminals. They are housed together with other members of their factions, to avoid friction. Prison authorities allow the prisoners to be more or less autonomous, negotiating with the leaders of the factions – who are essentially the commanders of the terror groups – for the conditions in the prison. In the most disgraceful and embarrassing incident in the history of the Prison Service, female guards were deliberately ordered to work in areas near “important” prisoners who then sexually assaulted them.

As is well known, the Palestinian Authority (PA) pays generous salaries to the families of prisoners, with a sliding scale based on the length of their sentences. In the case of the bombing of the Sbarro Pizza parlor, as of 2019, mastermind Ahlam Tamimi, the family of suicide bomber Izz Al-Din Al-Masri, and bomb maker Abdullah Barghouti, had received a total of $910,823 for their bloody work. The payments haven’t stopped. Although the US passed a law – the Taylor Force Act, named after an American murdered by terrorists in Israel – the Biden Administration has resumed aid to the PA. And although the Israeli Knesset passed a similar law, requiring that the amount of such payments be deducted from tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of the PA, the government decided to make up the amount deducted with a “loan” to the PA!

When terrorists are released, they return home to a hero’s welcome. The Palestinian media and school systems present them, especially the ones who were “martyred” in the commission of their acts, as examples for young people to follow. Indeed, dying while trying to murder Jews has become the most popular form of suicide for mentally unstable Arab teens or women who have “dishonored” their families and have no place to go.

Although the houses of terrorists are sometimes destroyed, the Supreme Court often refuses to allow house demolitions. And when it is allowed, the Palestinian Authority provides a new house. Attempts to expel the families of terrorists, take away work permits from relatives, or close roads to towns where terrorists live have been stymied by legal objections as “collective punishment.”

I ask our leaders and legal scholars: where do you think we live, in Scandinavia, Switzerland, or Canada? What message are we sending to the terrorists when we make their jail time as pleasant as possible, even including providing girls for them to abuse? What do they learn when we tell them that we refuse to finance terror, and then “loan” them $500 million to make up for payments withheld? The PA is in essence Fatah, the movement of Yasser Arafat, dedicated to our destruction. Hamas is radical Islamist movement, with the same objective. Why do we negotiate with them, transfer money for them, provide electricity and water for them, do anything at all except fight them and kill them?

Arab terrorists are attacking us on the roads on a daily basis, throwing large rocks and firebombs that can and have killed drivers and passengers, laying ambushes and trying to lynch us, and from time to time spraying us with bullets as happened to Yehuda Dimentman. They stab us in the streets of our capital city, claim our holy sites as their own, teach their children to murder, and always, above all, look for soft targets. This behavior is familiar to anyone who has read the Bible: it is the behavior of Amalek.

They are our enemies, but we have forgotten what an enemy is. We have forgotten that when you are faced with an enemy, you kill him or he kills you. It is not as complicated as people think. We are physically strong enough to win, to crush Hamas and the PLO, and expel them from our homeland. What we lack is the will, not only the will to crush our enemies for once and for all, but even the will to execute murderers and punish the families and clans that support them.

This isn’t Scandinavia, nor Switzerland, nor Canada. If we want to survive here, we need to regain the respect that we have lost as a result of our spiritual weakness. How do we do that? A step at a time. Start with executing terrorist murderers, then punish their families, their clans, their hometowns. Make terrorism more painful for them than for us. Respond disproportionately to provocations like rocket attacks. Don’t make threats that aren’t carried out. Above all, remember why we are here – and the consequences of giving up.

Abu Yehuda

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Shalom Achshav to Homesh 28.5.2022

The residents of Homesh were evicted from their homes and their houses demolished as part of the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and four settlements in the northern West Bank of August 2005. The settlement was also built on private Palestinian land. According to international law it is illegal. However, the government has dafke allowed a yeshiva to remain there. A few weeks ago under the auspices of the army a march by religious and those on the right was allowed to Homesh so as to state that it this their outpost. The government has stated over and over that the outpost will be evacuated and demolished but this is no done. So practically all the human rights organizations in Israel decided to march there with a bulldozer as if to say that we would demolish the outpost. Let’s face it, no one believed that we really could do this.

 The truth is that the last few weeks have left me very depressed and almost depleted in  spirit if there is such a thing. But someone said to me that we have no right to give up. We have no option if we care for the state of Israel to on fighting for justice ….and as we knew it would be….the less justice there is for the Palestinians, the less there will be for us.

 Cynically demonstrating a total double standard (eifa v'eifa), Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said that the army will not allow the demonstrators to march there  because it is illegal for Israelis to be there. Apparently, that restriction does not apply to the settlers living in  Chomesh or the thousands of supporters of the outpost who  have been allowed to come there to demonstrate against a potential evacuation.

 I took a taxi as it was Saturday. The driver, an Arab, told me that the other day three settlers had got into this taxi to go to a kibbutz out of town. He speaks a very good Hebrew with no accent. It was only when his wife phoned me that they realized that he was an Arab. They got nasty and he said that he would stop and they could get out but the one took his revolver out of the holster and put it right next to him and told him to drive. Then he said that that when they got to their destination they “would see’”     Luckily he has an alarm button to the police. When they asked  him why he was driving so slowly, he said the car was not pulling. The police caught up with him pretty quickly and pulled them out of the car. They asked him if he wanted them to pay for the way they had so far gone. He said he just wanted to be rid of them. Another police car had to be called in to deal with them. He does not know or care what happened.

 Buses and private cars came from all over the country. We were late getting there from Jerusalem and already on the way Ellen phoned me to say that the police were being very violent. Already, just as he had set out from his home, Ishai who started the movement at Belfour with 10 people….one of the biggest demonstrations was that of 20,000 demonstrators……was arrested when we he left at home….not because he had done anything but because it was a possibility that he MIGHT do something. Like a common criminal he was handcuffed and dragged out of his car. But the idiots handcuffed him before he got out of his seat belt.  The drivers of the bulldozers were also arrested by the thought police as they MIGHT be going to commit an illegal action.

Look at the link for an example of police violence.

Police, left-wing activists clash ahead of planned protest at illegal outpost Homesh

3 detained as Peace Now members gather with bulldozers; security officials say illegal demonstration can't go ahead, despite military securing earlier march by right-wing activists

Ishai laughing as the police realise what idiots they are

https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-left-wing-activists-clash-ahead-of-planned-protest-at-illegal-outpost-homesh/

One woman wrote that she is looking for witnesses against the soldier who slapped her in her face and then butted her head against a car.  

We eventually left the bulldozer and continued our way to Chomesh knowing well that we would not get there and at Kedumiem we were stopped. Allowed out of the buses and then encased between two lots of police. Above us stood the settlers well guarded by the soldiers. Probably they thought we would run up the hill like the brave six hundred and attack them. It was very hot and they stopped us getting to the nearby café and toilet. I went and found one of the places the settlers use when they are on the road and there is a bombardment and it served very well for my purpose.

 One of the thing we always have drummed into us is no violence either verbal or physical. Very hard for him as I can curse in at least for languages. But the only thing I did say and the soldiers could not object as it was that I hoped we would meet at the Hague. After all I did not say for what. But seriously when I see how they act with us I don’t want to think of how they act with the Palestinians. The day was terribly hot and there was no place I could sit. Not an easy day but when a woman came and said that when she heard that I was going , she felt she had to too

  The next few weeks should be calmer…but this is the Middle East

           V

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Happy Jerusalem Day | Riots on the Temple Mount, Waqf Officials Arrested | What did Trump Say?! | Arabs burn down Homesh Yeshiva

Happy Jerusalem Day | Riots on the Temple Mount, Waqf Officials Arrested | What did Trump Say?! | Arabs burn down Homesh Yeshiva

Happy Jerusalem Day | Riots on the Temple Mount, Waqf Officials Arrested | What did Trump Say?! | Arabs burn down Homesh Yeshiva | Microsoft Buys Israeli company for $100 M | Why Terrorism Persists (more…)

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Happy Jerusalem Day | Riots on the Temple Mount, Waqf Officials Arrested | What did Trump Say?! | Arabs burn down Homesh Yeshiva | Microsoft Buys Israeli company for $100 M | Why Terrorism Persists | - May 24, 2017 - ringlawfirm@gmail.com - Gmail

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Homesh Yeshiva Moved to Permanent Site on State-Owned Land

By TPS • 29 May, 2023   Jerusalem, 29 May, 2023 (TPS) — The Homesh yeshiva was relocated overnight Sunday to a new, permanent location, days after the Israel Defense Forces revoked a military order preventing Israelis from residing in the area. Before dawn on Monday, yeshiva students and volunteers moved the school several hundred meters off of disputed land. Samaria Regional Council head Yossi…

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Thousands protest planned demolition of Samaria yeshiva where terror victim studied

Thousands protest planned demolition of Samaria yeshiva where terror victim studied

“We ask the leaders of the country and the army to allow everyone who wants to comfort us in our deep distress to go up to Homesh,” Dimentman’s family stated. At the conclusion of the shiva, the seven-day mourning period, for 25-year-old terror victim Yehuda Dimentman, thousands joined the family on a rainy day in a protest march to the yeshiva, or institution of Talmudic studies, in Samaria,…